See what? ... you air cracked, I’ll be darned if you aint.
My God! my God! cried the preacher, looking about in despair, and speaking as if he saw the savages already at the work of death, hatchets and arrows on every side of his path, and every clump of willow-trees near breaking out with fire and smoke. Will you not be persuaded ... will you not give up? ... see ... see... Clark is getting the foolish men together, and if we betake ourselves to the refuge, there may be some hope of a—
What are they stoppin’ for now, I wonder—.
Wait half a minute more young man, said the preacher, and you will be satisfied—now—now!
As he spoke, the men halted and came together a few yards from the top of the hill.
Out o’ breath I guess?
Out of courage I fear—.
Hourra!—hourra!—shouted the men afar off, and the shout came through the still air, and passed off to the high sea, like a shout of triumph.
Hourra!—hourra!—answered all that were nigh Burroughs, and all that were in the fort.
Hourra!—hourra!—hourra!—echoed the people, and the shores and the rocks rung with their delirious outcry, as the brave thirty dashed forward.